Space Adventures

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Comic Book

Space Adventures #1

Time Skipper Visits the City of Brass

  • [writer unknown] and Art Cappello (art)
  • in Space Adventures 1, July 1952
Charlton’s first issue of Space Adventures introduced Hap Holliday, the Time Skipper, who travels with Professor Eon Tempus to the far future to rescue Ula, queen of Futuropolis, from reptile people. The end of this installment assures us that we’ll learn more of Ula in the next issue, but alas, the second and final adventure of the Time Skipper was delayed until Space Adventures #3. —Michael Main
Just skip along with Hap Holliday, the time skipper, in his “Year an Instant” yacht and learn what the world can be like in somebody else’s lifetime!!!
A man in front of a 12-foot sphere shouts, "Professor! It works . . . And we
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Space Adventures #3

The Time Skipper Travels to Ancient Rome

  • [writer unknown] and artist
  • in Space Adventures 3, November 1952
At the end of the Time Skipper’s first adventure, Hap Holliday and the professor were hoping to convince Queen Ula to accompany them back to the past, and it seems they succeeded, since Ula is with them on the splash page. But in their return trip (via the ever-staunch Timejumper), they overshoot their mark and end up in ancient Rome where the trio meets Cleopatra and tries to save Caesar. —Michael Main
Write Caesar a letter in your own hand, inviting him here tomorrow and we’ll have Ula deliver it. That will keep him from going to the Senate chamber!
A military man, a blonde queen, and a professor accidentally land their time ship in ancient Rome.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel